University of Vermont student Connor Gibson spent last week as one of the 204 UVM students in Washington D.C. as part of Power Shift, where 12,000 students from around the country convened at the Capitol to demand a shift towards greener environmental policy. After the conference he traveled to New York and helped to film and edit this video, asking New Yorkers what they thought of the International Conference on Climate Change, a gathering of global warming skeptics being held near Times Square by the Heartland Institute. The results are amusing.

I don’t see what’s so bad about global warming myself — it’d allow us to catch a nice tan year-round even in Vermont, right?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_SqdL34-JoM%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in The Animal Issue 2009.

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